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Ten Reasons Why I Wouldn't Attend Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech If I Was A Member Of U.S Congress

Black Star Editorial | March 03,2015

Netanyahu's speech isn't about risk a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal poses to Israel's security; it's about his egomaniacal bid to win re-election even at risk of scuttling agreement and damaging relations with Obama administration

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of revolutionary Black nationalist, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, Malcolm X, the December 12th Movement launched the Campaign for a Plebiscite for African people in the USA.

The House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn was filled despite the raging snow storm.

In the spirit of Malcolm X, the forum examined African peoples' resistance in the US since the trans-Atlantic slave trade and centuries...

Some things simply transcend sports....occurrences that demand for you to stop in your tracks and not give a second thought to who your favorite sport, team or player is. When the news came that Derrick Rose would be sidelined with another knee injury, I let out an “oh no” like Derrick and I had known each other since high school!

Not again! How could the same body, the bearer of so many gifts, be the source of such betrayal? The good news for the Bulls organization, its fans...

For forty years the United States has hidden the consequence of its tragic racial history at the center of the War on Drugs.

That historical consequence has now hardened into a box of mass incarceration that has trapped Black America. This proverbial box is so full it is now bursting at the seams, and seeping out are the screams of men like Eric Garner and countless others that simply cannot breathe under its pressure.

For South Siders and Sox fans all across the country, including me, Minnie Minoso is and will always be “Mr. White Sox.”

The first Black Major Leaguer in Chicago, Minnie came to the United States from Cuba even though he could have made more money elsewhere. He came up through the Negro Leagues, and didn’t speak much English at first.

And as he helped to integrate baseball in the 1950s, he was a target of racial slurs from fans...

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